I grew upinVienna, in an “old school” homewith a lot ofwarmth and security. I havelearnedtomake the most ofmy lifeand I knewdeep downthatallthetime I wantedto pass on [good things] to my children. That was themeaning, for me, of my life. I wantedwhat she hadtaught me,to lovemyparentsandmy young life, to pass on one dayto myown children. “What else should I have learned all this for?” I askedmyself.

As I grew older, Ino longerasked myselfthisquestion about the meaningof my life – andmy onlyreassurancewas that Iknew therewereothersstillwho were muchworse offthan me.Sotheyears passed – Ihad to adjustmyselfandperfect therules of the game – buta slightresignationdeep insidemyheartremainedinmeand so did the desire forfamily .

20yearsago I met theCommunityofTwelve Tribes – at a timewhen mylifeleft me nomoreillusions aboutabright future. And this lifehasfascinated me so muchthatIbecameapart of the community. I foundan amazing life, people who would not part but be togetherandevery daybeingbetter friends.

Webelieve inGodandlive togetherlike the first disciplesinJerusalem. The lovingandrespectfuldealings with each other that Iwas able to experience has really impressed me.TheBibleis the guidetoour livesandithaspleased me very much, just asa matter of course, howeverythingisimplemented. I live togetherwith happypeople, people who learneverything newandwhoare realwith each other. People whono longerhave toputtheirmasks on whentheygooutside the home — people who learntohaveconfidence in each other—which opensslowly.

Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common. (Acts 4:32)

Trulydesiredchildren!

Imarriedlate – notbecause nonice youngmenwere there inVienna, but becauseI wanted to marrythe right person – the one for whichIwascreated!Our marriagehas been blessedwiththreewonderfuldaughters – truly desiredchildren!

Together with my husbandwehavefoundinKlosterzimmerna wonderfulenvironment toraise our children. Located in the countrysideandsurrounded bytruefriendswe hadall the requirementstogethertolead a simple, godly life. At lastmyheart’s desirefulfilledandI couldpass onto my children what I had already learned in mylife.

Despitethe greatshock, we were sure thatby the next dayeverythingwouldclear up at the latestandourchildren wouldcome back, becausewe had a goodconscience.4

The truechild abuse

7longweekspasseduntil we allowed to see ourdaughtersfor the first time – andonlyfor a short timeunderheavy guardwithprecise instructionsonwhat topicsweshouldnottalk to each other. The truechild abusebegan on5 September 2013andcontinues to this day. Weallsuffer theconsequencesandapparentlyno one hearsourcryfor justice.

My daughter’s letter to her judge is one such cry.

Translation:

Your honor Herr Rößle,

I plead with you that this letter will be considered.

I want to go home!

The Jugendamt wants to convince me and tell me that I am doing better here in the home than at home. This is a lie! I can not live without my parents! This destroys something in my soul, when I am separated from my parents.

This also goes against the law! Because in the law it says that children have the right to live with their parents. I want to go home again. I won’t give up, as long as I am not at home. The best place from my whole life was with my parents. I know this! I will hold on to this hope, that we will come home! I want to make it clear to you that I want to go home!

Many greetings and thank you very much,

Chaninah Schott

However, Onelistens toher, to all these cries – andthat is ourCreator – the One whohas a planforallpeopleandwillturneverything to the goodforthose who love Him. ButGodisnot mystical. Helovesthat His highestcreation, people, would reflect His image. He needshonestheartsthat can hear Himandwho are braveenough todo what Helayson their hearts.

Can youhear hisvoice?

Do you havethe courage tohear hisvoice?

Do you want tohelpour children bereleasedagain?

Do you want tohelp it bethat unity and justiceandfreedomremainnotonlyabeautiful melodyof theNationalAnthem?

That very day medical exams revealed what we already knew, that our children were healthy and not abused. See the post, “My fellow citizens.” This was broadcast to the German people, too, by the Jugendamt, but it made no difference. ↩

The visitwithyou yesterdaywas beautifulat lastwe saw each other. Hopefully,we willcomehome soon. I miss you so badly. We must not cease to pray. Every day we come nearer to our target day. I love you soooo much! What are you doing now? I look forward to our next visit!!

5 September 2014: On the Anniversary of the Raid

Bavarian Senate

In a debatein the Bavarianstate parliamenton July 20, 2006 about theTwelve Tribes a State Secretary said:

“That means that there is in this case only two possible actions: either imprison the mothers or send the children to a home. Sending 33 children into an institution, would mean a collective withdrawal of parental custody. There has never been a case like this in Germany so far.”

An SPD (Social Democrat) member of the Parliament said on the same subject:

Klosterzimmern, 5 September 2013: Neither the parents nor the children resisted the authorities. But here began the lies told by the Jugendamt to us and our children and about us that have yet to end.

A year’s review

41 childrenandyouth from the CommunitiesinKlosterzimmernandWörnitzweretorn from their home by the use of police force, among themoneyoungadult guest and sixchildrenofguestsof thecommunity. Theywere returnedsignificantlytraumatizedon the same day.

All the children and youth were examined at the district administration by a medical officer the same day. But even though no signs of abuse whatsoever were found in these children, they were taken to institutions and foster families against their wills. Before the Raid, the Jugendamt (Social Services of Germany) had never talked with the parents. So the measure was solely based on blanket allegations without any concrete proofs regarding the individual children and parents.

A Spanish-American set of parents have been desperately fighting for a year for their custody case to be transferred to Social Services in Spain, their home country.The father had just been in Germany due to a construction job of his Spanish company. Social Services in Spain is in agreement, but the decision is up to the District Court in Ansbach. To their sorrow they have taken the right to determine education away from the parents so that the children could be admitted into elementary school in Germany. The family does not want to stay here by any means!

Two mothers along with their infants who had been forced to live with foster parents, were allowed to join their husbands again after three months per decision of the Intermediate Court of Appeals in Nuremberg. In the meantime, two families with a total of 6 children who had been taken into custody, have recanted their beliefs to get their children back. (In the case of one family this has already been successful.)

Still they try to bring back into state custody two girls aged 11 and 13, respectively, by the use of police force. Nine of our children are officially allowed to be back with their parents since the court rulings have been repealed.

They simply claim that the letters had been dictated, but the strict supervision of the visits makes this impossible.

Contrastingly, the children have not written a single thank-you letter to the Jugendamt (Social Services in Germany) or to Mr. Kuhnigk for their so-called “liberation” by force. For a year now in every court hearing, the children have been voicing their greatest desire to be back with their parents.

In 1740, Frederick the Great set Germany on course…

He did so by posing a question to which he already knew the answer. The fateful day came, November 1, 1740. Frederick asked Heinrich von Podewils, one of his councilors, “I give you a problem to solve:

When one has the advantage, should one make use of it or not?

Young Frederick the Great.

“I am ready with my troops and with everything else. If I do not use them now I keep in my hands a powerful but useless instrument. If I use my army it will be said that I have had the skill to take advantage of the superiority which I have over my neighbor.”

Podewils suggested that this would be considered immoral.

Frederick countered. When had kings been deterred by morality? Could he afford to practice the Ten Commandments in that den of wolves known as the Great Powers? {Durant, “Story of Civilization, Vol. IX (Simon and Schuster, NY, 1965) p. 451}

This was a far cry from the man who had, just shortly before wished to be seen as “the first servant” of his people:

Originally published anonymously; its author soon became known.

“It is thus justice (one would have to say) which must be the main responsibility of a sovereign. Since it is the prime interest of the many people whom they control, they must give it priority over any interest of their own.

“What then becomes of Machiavelli’s of naked self-interest, self-aggrandizement, unleashed ambition and despotism?

“The sovereign, far from being the absolute master of those who are under his dominion, is only the first servant.”

Taking advantage of the powerful army his father, Frederick I, had prepared for him, Frederick II, like a modern Alexander, waged many, many wars. Finally, both he and his nation were exhausted. He is famed for being an “enlightened absolute monarch.” Upholding freedom or religion and (at least at first), freedom of speech, he differed from the religious monarchs before him. But as he liked to say, “My people and I have come to an agreement thatsatisfies us both: they are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.” {Durant, p. 448}

Indeed, as the Encyclopedia Britannica says, “Frederick, the third king of Prussia, ranks among the two or three dominant figures in the history of modern Germany. Under his leadership Prussia became one of the great states of Europe. Its territories were greatly increased and its military strength displayed to striking effect.” And who were the other “dominant figures in the history of modern Germany”? A poster of some seventy plus years ago lists them as follows. Did they all learn Frederick’s lessons, too? You be the judge.

Translation:

What the King Conquered, the Prince Shaped, the Field Marshal defended, the Soldier saved and united.

When one has the advantage…

Yes, when have governments been deterred by questions of morality? That is, when they have the advantage. There is much they can do then. Indeed, virtually anything.

When have social services upheld such prime directives as extreme measures last (taking children away from parents)? When one has the advantage, one can seize the children first, confidently relying on the great advantage of the machineries of public opinion, already rolling, to justify its extreme measures.

Reporters “respecting” our privacy and filming the trauma of our children being seized 5 September 2013.

No matter the trauma to the children and the devastation to the parents of doing so. Then, building on the advantages of force and manipulated public opinion, virtually denying the confiscated children contact with their parents. Yes, once every two or even three weeks for an hour. One can do such things when one has the advantage.

11 children were taken in care for which there were no decisions of the district court Nördlingen. This constitutes the offense of false imprisonment – the deprivation of their liberty. Other legal bases according to Code of Criminal Procedure or under SGB VIII were not available.

All seized children were forced to undress down to their underpants and show even the bare buttocks, there was no legal basis. The investigation showed that no signs of ill-treatment could be determined by the medical officer. This behavior, coercion under § 240 of the Criminal Code, is moreover a very serious matter because the offender has abused his powers or his position as a public official, and thus can be a criminal offence.

The Jugendamt directed – on the basis of both written evidence and testimony – that all the letters of the children to their parents be opened and read, and that all the letters of the parents to the children be opened and read. This arrangement involved children of all ages, including young people between 12 and almost 18 years of age. These and further such actions constitute offenses, such as § 202 of the Criminal Code, § 206 Section 4 of the Criminal Code, and also violate the right to privacy under Article 10 of the Basic Law, optionally at retention of letters, also the crime of unfaithfulness. Justifications are not apparent. In particular, no court had ordered the inspection of letters and phone calls.

Multiple times children ran away from foster care and children’s homes and were returned under use of physical force by members of the Jugendamt there. The use of physical violence against children requires a court order. Such an order did not exist. There have been several confirmations of this unique legal situation in proceedings at the Higher Regional Court of Munich, amongst others, with reference to a decision of the BayObLG of 4/27/1979 (Rb 3 Z 28/79, FamRZ 80, 81). Multiple times children were locked up in children’s homes. In one case, the children were being locked in at night. In another case, a 17-year-old girl was denied for more than a week, under the threat of physical and psychological violence, to leave the home for maladjusted children at all. Custodial measures had not been ordered by the family court. This constitutes the fact of deprivation of liberty that qualifies as a crime under § 239 paragraph 3 of the Criminal Code.

The Jugendamt conducted multiple searches in Klosterzimmern and in the process invaded the homes of several people. Given the fundamental right to inviolability of the home there is a need for a legal basis for these searches. There were no judicial search warrants. Other legal bases did not exist.

In the facilities in which the Jugendamt had assigned them, affected children were bullied in many ways, slandered, abused, and insulted as Jews inter alia. It will be necessary to consider whether these facts are a neglect of the duties of supervision by the Jugendamt and so constitute criminal offenses.

But when one has the advantage one must not be deterred by morality.

No, not even by one’s own laws, by an agency’s own code of conduct. . . not even by one’s own sense of decency.

When one has the advantage, one uses it — if one does not fear God or regard even the cries of children.

Read Luke 18:1-8 for the response of the Twelve Tribes to this injustice.

Nay, it is loved children who love their parents who write such letters!

Translation

Dear Besorah,

I made this heart for you. It expresses how fond I am of you and how much I love you.

I am very sad that it has been so long since we have seen each other.

But you are always with me in my thoughts.

I hope we can come home soon. I dreamed that it would be next week.

Love you,

Chaninah

Besorah is Chaninah’s and Ishah’s oldest sister. Besorah has been very outspoken in her love for her parents, her desire to go home, and the utter injustice suffered by the children of Klosterzimmern and Wörnitz in being taken from their parents.

Translation

Dear Imma (Hebrew for mother),

I love you so much andhope that we comehome soon.

I‘m overjoyed that you are allowed to visit us.

But we are coming soon anyway.

That’s a promise. But praying is the only way it is going to happen.

Your Ishah

Translation

Dear Imma (Hebrew for mother),

I drew this picturefor you.

The sheep are the community,because wehave to stay together.

We must nevergive up.

I dreamed that we are coming home next week. Hopefully it is true.

I miss you sooo much.

I am going to the eye-nose-throat doctor. I might have to have my tonsils taken out. They are really swollen.

If I have to get them out, maybe you can come visit me more often.

I love you very, very much

(Literally: I love you so much it hurts.)

Your Chaninah

Translation

Dear Abba (Hebrew for father),

This drawing is for you.

You are like the tree that nourishes us; you feed us when we are hungry and we can hold onto you when we are shaky (have nothing to hold onto).

The letter in this post was written 18 February 2014

Here is Chassidah in the “lovely home” full of locked doors and high walls that the Jugendamt provided for her after wrenching her from her beautiful home and family in Klosterzimmern on 5 September 2013.

This is where Chassidah was forced to live, against her own desire, her own will, by the Jugendamt.

For half a year Chassidah has let it be known every day:

Yes, for six months she has told the educators in the home, teachers at school, the Jugendamt (youth welfare office), her supplemental caretaker and lawyers and different judges:

she wrote it in every plan for events: “Don’t plan me in, for I’m not going to be here anymore.”

SHE HAS NOT BEEN HEARD.

It is too sad, she told her parents, that no one is listening to their conscience, that no one is hearing her voice. It would be her birthday in a few days, and all she wanted to do was be with her parents and honor them by taking on their heart.

But no one seemed to hear. After the hearing in February, according to the Higher Regional Court in Munich, she wrote the following to the judge, Herr Prexl:

Translation:

Dear Mr. Prexl

Do you remember when you asked me at the hearing several times to promise you that I will not escape before you have decided something?

In the Bible in Matthew 5:37, the son of God has said, “Let your speech be yes, yes, and no, no! Everything else is from the evil one.” My parents also taught me that one must keep his word, even if it is difficult.

For me it’s also not easy to keep waiting, but I have promised you not to run away from the home and I want to respect it. I have only one question to you:

What I have done, that the Jugendamt always promises me things that they do not do?

For example, I asked for 5 months if my big sister would be allowed to visit me, but never did anyone listen to me.

Chassidah with her sister, Judith.

Only once, when my sister flew back to America again was she allowed to come. Then the Jugendamt allowed afterwards that my sister may call me once a week. Because of that I was very delighted.

Then, a few weeks later she suddenly has not called and I did not know at all why. I could not make sense of it at all and no one told me anything about that.

Recently, I had learned by chance that her call had just not been forwarded to me in the home, because social services has said that she suddenly may only call once a month. The Jugendamt does not keep its word!